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What about straight leg deadlifts? I do them and I love them. But I've heard so many anecdotes about "how dangerous they are"... wtf...

You know, I used to think the same about my hamstring flexibility. I was like "man, I can put my palms on the ground, I have BEAST hamstring flexibility" when in fact all I was doing was bending my back.

If you keep your back neutral (head, upperback and lowerback all in line) without - obviously - allowing the chest to collapse forward - you'll see THEN what your hamstring flexibility actually is.

I can get a bit under the knees with that. And you can REALLY feel the hamstrings stretch, not like before. From that position you can collapse the chest and see how it felt back when you were doing the way you were doing it before (which is wrong).

So basically - for me - due to hamstring INflexibility I have compensated in time by becoming very flexible in the trunk, which is NOT necessarily the thing you want. That explains a lot of my movement impairments as well.

Looking fine.

The more and more I look at your videos the more I think you have hamstring issues, probably both in terms of flexibility and strength. There's something about your movement, the way you favor knee bend/body position etc that makes me think that. You tell me how accurate I am.

Yeah you can take in lactase, or wait for the body to adapt by keeping up with milk everyday.

Hey Kingfish,

You were talking about the paused squat... I'm currently doing regular HIGH bar squats (without a pause) and kinda suck terribly at them.

If you were me would you go with an even lower weight and do them paused, continue doing them the way I do them, or switch to a low bar squat?

It doesn't work that way. Usually, being able to do paused squats well doesn't mean you're going to use a much higher weight doing squats without a pause.